The Lighter Side of Hardware

Creative Hardware Store

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

-- William Faulkner

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

-- G. Weilacher

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

 -- Arthur C. Clarke

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

-- Kin Hubbard

The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools.

-- Unknown

The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.

-- Unknown

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

-- Will Rogers

To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

-- Unknown

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

-- George Bernard Shaw

A hammer sometimes misses it mark -- a bouquet never.

-- Monta Crane

A man works all his life in a glass factory, one day he feels like picking up a hammer.

-- Harold Lloyd

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

-- John Ruskin